I didn’t get to see much of Elia and Elis after we returned, which I probably should have expected. Ceion was true to his word and went to talk to them. After that, from what I gathered, he sough...
2021-12-20 20:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostUnfortunately, finding Ceion and Mior wasn’t as easy as I’d hoped. I didn’t really know where they’d gone, and my father was apparently too busy to give me directions. But I didn’t let th...
2021-12-16 20:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostI thought it was downright unfair how of all the places I’d been in the last year, Saria had the nicest view of the sunrise. Even so far south in winter, where the sun would only be visible for a...
2021-12-13 20:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis might be the last time I went into a recently conquered city. At least in the foreseeable future. But it certainly wasn’t the first, and I’d come to have certain expectations for these sit...
2021-12-09 21:05:53 +0000 UTC View PostEven after the Greater Spirits had disappeared, I spent a long moment just floating in the air, staring at nothing in particular. Only Mior’s careful poke roused me.
I beat the wings I had ...
2021-12-07 20:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostI saw something that shouldn’t exist in this world. A winding labyrinth, equal parts ancient mazes and postmodern cityscape, stretched out and interconnected to parts of itself. It looked like so...
2021-12-02 21:15:06 +0000 UTC View Post‘Is he gone?’ I asked.
Mior didn’t answer for a moment, presumably focusing on their senses in order to answer the question. Finally, the spirit nodded. ‘As far as I can ...
2021-11-29 21:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostI jerked backwards, jumping back several meters before I realized what I was doing. Then I glanced at Mior, who still stood in front of me. Despite that, I could feel their qi far more closely than...
2021-11-25 21:45:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe sound of drums echoed across the landscape like rolling waves of war and coming bloodshed. I listened quietly for a few moments. The sound wasn’t unfamiliar, after my campaigns here in the so...
2021-11-22 20:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostVisibility increased as we got further from the epicenter of the battle, but not by much. The air was still smoky, the hilly plain dark around us, lit by occasional flashes of light from techniques...
2021-11-22 20:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostElis collapsed onto his armchair like someone had used a gravity increasing technique on him, sprawling into it in a graceless heap. Not that I had any room to judge, since that was exactly what I...
2021-11-15 20:59:03 +0000 UTC View PostFor a moment, I just stood there, staring after the Pioneer and letting the adrenaline fade. I never wanted to do that again. It was worse than nerve-wracking.
Then I turned and glanced aroun...
2021-11-11 20:56:18 +0000 UTC View PostWith Elis’ and my senses, we managed to avoid the people in the building quite well as we hurried through it. I knew we wouldn’t be able to fool everyone, and I preferred speed over complete st...
2021-11-08 20:46:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe didn’t have to wait long. Soon, I felt the approach of someone in a middle stage of cultivation, probably the late fourth stage. He entered the office from the other side, and then we were ask...
2021-11-04 20:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Sorry for the delay! This was supposed to be posted the usual time on Monday, and I didn't notice that I missed it until just now. Well, there'll be two posts this evening instead. 2021-11-04 20:10:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The city of Saria was older than the City of a Thousand Lights by at least a millennium, and it wore its age well. The honor of being the Dominion’s capital changed back and forth between some Za...
2021-10-28 19:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostI didn’t think anyone got much sleep that night. Which was probably just as well. My army was composed of cultivators who were all at least in the third stage, so it didn’t pose much of a probl...
2021-10-25 19:45:59 +0000 UTC View PostDespite all odds, we’d managed to keep the city relatively intact.
As I stood looking out over the spread of the buildings, what felt like half of them damaged or scorched, I recognized tha...
2021-10-21 19:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe hug didn’t last long, considering how intense it was. After a few moments, we both broke off as if we suddenly realized what we were doing. It had settled me down a bit, but I still felt badl...
2021-10-18 19:46:00 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time we neared the temple, we’d fought almost a dozen other spirits. Most of them, we’d killed, although some had apparently been smart enough to realize when they were outmatched and fl...
2021-10-14 20:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostIn the time we’d taken to deliberate and prepare, things had gotten worse in the city. I’d expected that, although the extent of it took me aback. From close up, I could see the damage the city...
2021-10-11 19:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostOf all the things I would have expected to find once we drew close enough to the Zarian city, seeing it burning wasn’t one of them.
It took me a moment to realize that it probably looked wo...
2021-10-07 19:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostThere was time, but it didn’t work right.
Of all the things she’d had in her mortal existence, Acura had never thought much about her sense of the passage of time. She’d had a good sens...
2021-10-04 19:52:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe sunset painted the land in front of us in warm colors, giving it a beauty that would ordinarily be hidden. In the distance, high peaks speared the sky, but closer up, winding streams, hilly fie...
2021-09-30 19:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostI looked out into the sunset, which was currently dying the hills to the east in soft tones, and sighed. Clouds were gathering again for a storm, though it looked like this one was going to be a no...
2021-09-27 19:46:00 +0000 UTC View PostYarani put a hand on my shoulder. “Inaris. There’s no point in focusing too much on this and letting it drag you this far down.”
I raised my head, blinked, then shook my head. “I’m ...
2021-09-23 19:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe battle hadn’t raged long, but it was already one of the most devastating ones I’d ever seen. I could only make out parts of it, the rest blocked out by the haze of fires, shimmering air, su...
2021-09-20 19:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Whitecap mountain range of the Storm Continent reminded me unpleasantly of the Central Mountains. I could only barely make them out from here, and only with the help of light qi and my spyglass...
2021-09-16 19:46:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe’d only hosted him for a day, and already I was fondly thinking of the pleasant days I’d have when my ancestor was away again.
It wasn’t even mainly because of his attitude. Sure, he ...
2021-09-13 19:46:00 +0000 UTC View PostI plopped down on the sofa, pulling my outer robe off and throwing it haphazardly over the back of a chair. The hems dragged on the floor, but those were probably cleaned every day, so it didn’t ...
2021-09-09 19:46:00 +0000 UTC View Post